“And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, andthou
shalt bruise his heel” –
(Gen.3:14,15).

“But he was wounded for our transgressions,he was bruised for our iniquities.”

“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise
him: he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering
forsin…” - (Is.53:5,10).

Nemesis means (a formidable rival or
opponent). Nemesis is now used as a term to describe one’s worst enemy,
normally someone that is the exact opposite of oneself but it also somehow
similar. The nemesis ofGenesis is Christ and Antichrist.
Christ is the virgin-born seed of the woman Mary, the son of God, and
Antichrist is the seed of Satan – the son of perdition. They are two enemies,
two rivals, two formidable opponents battling over the souls of human beings on
planet earth. They are two bruisers fighting for light and darkness.

Antichrist is the Devil’s seed as are all other humans who are born of
the flesh and have rejected Christ as Savior. Christ is the seed of the woman
and of God, the heavenly Father and all those who are born again of the Holy
Spirit into the body of Christ. It’s the children of the Devil vs. the children
of God. It is unseen spiritual warfare that shows itself in physical warfare
and persecution also – “But as then, he
that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now” – (Gal.4:29).

We see here in this marvelous prophecy in Genesis a reference to a
double bruising. Christ, the woman’s seed, shall bruise Satan’s head, and Satan
shall bruise His heel. At His first coming, the seed of the woman, Jesus
Christ, had His feet bruised by Satan on the cross. At His second coming,
Christ will bruise Satan’s’ head at Armageddon. Satan bruised Christ’s feet
when His feet were nailed to the cross and He was crucified. But Christ got the
victory over death by His resurrection three days later. God used this bruising
of His dear Son on the cross so He would be the savior of the world. He is the
Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world as God’s perfect offering for
sin. “He was bruised for our iniquities”
– amen.

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The bruising of Antichrist’s head will take place when Christ returns to
earth in power with His army of saints from heaven and ‘de-feets’
the beast at Armageddon. Antichrist, the nemesis and enemy of Christ, will lose
the great battle in his warfare on this earth. Antichrist and his false prophet
will be thrown alive into the lake of fire and Satan is cast into the
bottomless pit for a thousand years. At the end of the thousand years, Satan is
loosed from his bottomless pit prison and he immediately raises a great army to
attack King Jesus in Jerusalem.
Satan loses the war and is cast into the lake of fire for eternity with His
Antichrist. This is the battle of Gog and Magog and the final bruising of Christ upon Satan’s head.
This is the agony of Satan’s defeat – (defeet) –
amen. Antichrist is mighty, but Christ is the Almighty.

At the cross, Satan was defeated spiritually, for there a part of fallen
humanity is purchased out of the kingdom of darkness to be a part of the
kingdom of light. Finally Satan will be thrown in the lake of fire, where he
will be defeated eternally. The seed of the serpent-Satan are all people born
only of the flesh, of the corruptible seed. “That
is, They which are the children of the flesh, these
are not the children of God; but thechildren
of the promise are counted for the seed” – (Rom.9:8). Again – “Being born again, not of corruptibleseed , but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which liveth and abideth forever” – (I Pet.1:23).
But out of all the Devil’s seed born only of the
flesh, is one seed in particular called “the
Antichrist.” Out of billions of antichrist people born on the earth for
6000 years, will come one in these end days called the “Antichrist-Beast.”

Antichrist will make war against all the born again seed of God. He will
persecute and kill them for not worshipping him and receiving his mark in their
forehead or right hand – (Rev.13:7,15). The nemesis of
Christ will be revealed soon. Satan will ever fight against righteousness and
the things of God and the children of God. He is God’s nemesis and the enemy of
the body of Christ.

Antichrist bruising the feet of the body of Christ during the
Tribulation is seen in (Dan.2) with Nebuchadnezzar’s Emperor image
dream… the ‘feet’ of the image is the last emperor, Antichrist. He is described
as the ‘The feet of iron and clay.”
And it’s a cruel empire like the Roman Empire that is
evolves out of, typified by the leg of Italy.
We all know that iron can bruise flesh very easily and the revived Roman Empire
of Antichrist will be a bruiser like Rome
was “…shall be strong as iron: forasmuch
as iron breaketh in piecesand subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these,
shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
– (Dan.2:40).
The U.S. Empire is the New Rome, and outgrowth of the old Roman
Empire, the feet of the Roman leg. The U.S.
conquered Rome in Sept. 1944 and we
have 113 military installations all over the leg of Italy
and her two islands of Sicily and
Sardonia. We control Italy
with our occupational forces as we do most of the world.

The breaking, bruising leg of the Roman Empire
was the one that bruised the Lord Jesus on the cross, but God wouldn’t let them
break his legs – (Jn.19:33). And it will be the U.S. Empire, the New Rome and
outgrowth of the Roman Empire, that will bruise and kill the body of Christ, the
spiritual seed, during the Tribulation. And Antichrist will try to kill all the
physical seed of Israel
also – (Rev.12).

Satan and his Antichrist bruise the feet of the body of Christ, not
knowing that the same feet will bruise and crush them. Christ will have them
‘under his heel’ when He returns at Armageddon as King of Kings over the whole
earth and makes the earth His footstool. The heel of His feet will rule over
the footstool of earth. “TheLord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool” – (Ps.110:1). Like the
footstool when He sits on the throne of His kingdom. He will have them ‘under
heel.’

The footstool is a symbol of dominion. God is pictured as a king
enthroned in heaven with the earth as His footstool – “Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool…” – (Is.66:1). Of Christ it is written – “For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet” –
(I Cor.15:25). In (Eph.1:22) God’s Word places ‘feet and head’ in the same
verse – “And hath put all things under
his feet, and gave him tobe the head
over all things to the church.” Again –
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made
his footstool” – (Heb.12,13).Satan
bruised the heels of Christ’s feet and the heels of His hands when he entered
into Judas and betrayed Christ to be crucified on Calvary, not knowing that
Calvary means “the place of the skull,”
pointing to Christ bruising the head of Satan after His resurrection and when He
returns to earth.

Picture Christ’s heel upon a footstool made up of all His enemies who
rejected His love on the cross. And certainly His two main enemies are Satan
and the Antichrist. When you’re saved by Christ, then you are no longer enemies
of God, but you are now the friends of God and have made peace with God through
the blood of Christ – (Rom.5:1). In fact, I was saved and born again while
kneeling over a footstool in a friend’s house on March 17, 1972. On that day I became a friend of God and
no longer an enemy of God destined for the lake of fire – (Rev.20:15). “…How beautiful are the feet of them who
preach the gospel of peace” – (Rom.10:15). Satan and all the unsaved
sinners and wicked ‘heels’ will come under the heels of Christ.

Yes, “it pleased the Lord to
bruise him” because “he was bruised for
our iniquities” – (Is.53:10,5). It was the
Father’s will that His beloved Son be whipped and wounded and bruised and shed
His precious blood to atone for the sins of believers. By faith and believing
on Christ in our heart, we lay our sins on Christ, as the sins of Israel
were laid upon the head of the scapegoat. He was God’s perfect, sinless
sacrifice on Calvary (place of the skull) – the head –
amen. Like the scapegoat, “The Lord hath
laid on him the iniquity of us all” –“And
he barethe sin of many” – (Is.53:6,12). Christ is God’s escape-goat, a sinner’s only way to
escape the punishment of our sins in a fiery hell. “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation…” –
(Heb.2:3).

Christ was not bruised for His own sins, but for ours. “God made his soul an offering for sin.”“He thatspared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all” –
(Rom.8:32). He had many bruises, “He was
stricken,smitten, and afflicted.”
He was smitten with the hand and scourged. He was wounded in His hands, feet
and side and He was crowned with thorns. He was bruised from the top of His
head to the bottom of His feet and not just His feet. It was His Fathers will
that he be bruised entirely as no O.T. sacrifice was – (Lev.22:21,24). Christ had no blemish or spot inwardly because He was
sinless, but He was sorely bruised outwardly for the punishment of our sins.

O do not spurn God’s great love of the sacrifice
of His Son or the wrath of God abideth on you. Repent of your sins and believe
on Christ in your heart and you will receive forgiveness of sins, and be saved
from hell and become a new born again creature in Christ, which is your
beginning of eternal life. “In this was
manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten
Son into the world, that we might livethrough
him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his
Son to be the propitiationfor our sins”
– (I Jn.4:9,10).

Antichrist, the
nemesis of Christ, comes soon and it will come to a head at the battle of
Armageddon.